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Our Halloween costume in 2005 was a rollercoaster. The kids at school were totally freaked out by it. They couldn't quite figure out how we were floating.
It was easy to make out of one box. You cut it out and fold down the side and paint.
As you walk along, pantomime the actions of going up the hill and going over the top. It makes it really fun if you can mime the whole ride. We mimed the Blue Streak from Cedar Point that I rode on growing up as a kid in the 70's.
Other views can be seen here www.flickr.com/photos/krossbow/sets/72157607587763901/
Costumes at Wizard World New Orleans Comic Con, Nov. 30 - Dec. 2, 2012, at Ernest N. Morial Convention Center.
Photo credit by photo name:
01 Robert Carver
02 Two Girl Productions
03 Scott Forbes
04 Gina Gallo
05 Joseph Wen
06 Valerie Thierez
07 Kirt Evans
08 Adam Relayson
09 Bunny Cittadino
Woman Adult Supergirl Deluxe Halloween Costume
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Kenia - Samburuland.
The Samburu are related to the Masai although they live just above the equator where the foothills of Mount Kenya merge into the northern desert and slightly south of Lake Turkana in the Rift Valley Province of Kenya.
They are semi-nomadic pastoralists whose lives revolve around their cows, sheep, goats, and camels. Milk is their main stay; sometimes it is mixed with blood. Meat is only eaten on special occasions. Generally they make soups from roots and barks and eat vegetables if living in an area where they can be grown.
Most dress in very traditional clothing of bright red material used like a skirt and multi-beaded necklaces, bracelets and earrings, especially when living away from the big cities.
The Samburu developed from one of the later Nilotic migrations from the Sudan, as part of the Plains Nilotic movement. The broader grouping of the Maa-speaking people continued moving south, possibly under the pressure of the Borana expansion into their plains. Maa-speaking peoples have lived and fought from Mt. Elgon to Malindi and down the Rift Valley into Tanzania. The Samburu are in an early settlement area of the Maa group.
Those who moved on south, however (called Masai), have retained a more purely nomadic lifestyle until recently when they have also begun farming. The expanding Turkana ran into the Samburu around 1700 when they began expanding north and east.
The language of the Samburu people is also called Samburu. It is a Maa language very close to the Masai dialects. Linguists have debated the distinction between the Samburu and Masai languages for decades.
Generally between five and ten families set up encampments for five weeks and then move on to new pastures. Adult men care for the grazing cattle which are the major source of livelihood. Women are in charge of maintaining the portable huts, milking cows, obtaining water and gathering firewood. Their houses are of plastered mud or hides and grass mats stretched over a frame of poles. A fence of thorns surrounds each family's cattle yard and huts.
Their society has for long been so organized around cattle and warfare (for defense and for raiding others) that they find it hard to change to a more limited lifestyle. The purported benefits of modern life are often undesirable to the Samburu. They remain much more traditional in life and attitude than their Masai cousins.
Duties of boys and girls are clearly delineated. Boys herd cattle and goats and learn to hunt, defending the flocks. Girls fetch water and wood and cook. Both boys and girls go
through an initiation into adulthood, which involves training in adult responsibilities and circumcision for boys and clitoridectomy for girls.
Soldiers from the HCMR wait for the Parade and Service of The Combined Cavalry Old Comrades Association at the Cavalry Memorial to start.
In a quintessentially British scene, more than two thousand serving and former Cavalrymen marched through Hyde Park today, immaculate in suits with bowler hats and furled umbrellas, to pay their respects to fallen comrades. They were accompanied by Army Musicians to the delight of visitors to the capital enjoying the Royal Park's open spaces.
The Cavalrymen were taking part in the 93rd Annual Parade and Service of The Combined Cavalry Old Comrades Association at the Cavalry Memorial. The parade remembers all those who have given their lives to conflict since the First World War.
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As in bluebird. Of happiness.
Just one more from Halloween.
Our Halloween rocked. We rode a merry-go-round and got so much candy that I had to start stuffing it in my pockets (we will certainly be hitting up the U of P again next year).
First face I've painted in a while--trying for a vintage Japanese doll look...not sure if I achieved it...
Hair is textured yarn sewn to the head via the original rooting holes.
Head is Disney Store Tiana, body is a hybrid of Christie torso with gymnast-style arms plus legs from a broken Fashionistas doll, with holes drilled/metal bars inserted to loop elastic around, then painted.
Everything she's wearing was thrifted =)